More than 500K driver's licenses issued to illegal immigrants in California

Of course California is proud of this.Fox News: California has issued more than half a million driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally under a program that began nine months ago.
Armando Botello, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, said Friday that the milestone was reached last week. “For us, the DMV, it is a source of great pride to have reached half a million this soon. We thought we would issue half a million applications per year and we did it in 9 months. This means the DMV work is paying off and that all drivers will be safer now,” said Botello.
The state started providing special permits in January, when a law took effect allowing unauthorized illegal immigrants to obtain it with an identification document, proof of residence, and after passing a written and a driving exam. Because the agency does not ask about race or ethnicity, it is not known how many of the five hundred thousand applicants are Latino. However, Botello said most are Hispanic.
The record number of licenses issued came as a surprise to the agency, which expected to reach the half a million mark by the end of the year, said Botello. According to DMV estimates, there is a total of 1.4 million potential applicants in the state of California.
“We thought we would issue half a million in one year and we did it in nine months. I think it will be difficult that we reach one million in the next nine months because there are fewer people coming to the office,” the spokesman said.
The new licenses initially generated huge interest, with long lines at DMV offices in January and February.
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Good grief. Half a million driver’s licenses to illegal “aliens” (a word now banned by Gov. Jerry Brown). California is finished.
That’s the covert agenda of flooding the U.S. with illegals “immigrants” from Mexico and “legal” migrants from the Middle East — to fundamentally transform every state in the U.S. into “red” Demonrat states.

I am still a little confused as to how this will make everyone safer, when you have more people than ever driving that cannot speak or read English.
Have you ever seen the vehicles in Mexico? They are one big demo derby, damaged beyond recognition sometimes.
Per the DMV spokesman, he must have been paid well. Bet, he is illegal also.

Yes and how many of those so-called Latino’s are actually from the Middle East and have ties to terrorism? No one knows. Does the prez actually think that muslime/islime would not fake being Latino just to get rewarded for being in America? Oh well, may the Lord have mercy! I do believe we are doomed.

Well, this would explain why, when I had to renew my license last summer, I had to drive to a city 50 miles away (everywhere else booked or closed for the summer) and made an appointment—YET…..I had to stand in several lines for more than a half day before I could be “processed.” And, maybe 10 other people in the entire day spoke English…..the place was literally GORGED with Spanish-speaking people (esp. women with 5 bawling/ screaming kids each)…..who took up all the chairs for the entire 5 hours I was there , waiting for my “appointment.”